Executive Director, Data2X
Emily Courey Pryor is founding Executive Director of Data2X, and a passionate advocate for achieving gender equality through eliminating gender bias from the world’s major data sources. Data2X works with partners – UN agencies, governments, civil society, academia, and the private sector – to improve gender data and its use for better, smarter decision making.
Emily has built and led a variety of start-ups, including the UN Foundation’s initiative on Women’s Economic Empowerment and the Girl Up campaign, has worked in the private sector, managing Gilead Sciences’ corporate philanthropy programs, and started her career at the American Red Cross. In addition to a focus on gender equality, she has worked in global health, international disaster response, and peace and security. Deeply motivated by the importance of combating climate change, she is an investor in a utility-scale solar company.
Emily received her Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan and BA from the University of Florida. She also has (unintentionally) become practiced at living in non-traditional places for a global development career: for the last 8 years Emily has lived in Austin, TX and Nashville, TN with her family.
Clean Energy • Economic Opportunity • Financial Services • Health • Women's and Girls' Education
North America, South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Central America, Middle East and North Africa, West and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa
